Agency begets agency — LessWrong
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The second way of cultivating excitement-based motivation I'll discuss in this sequence is cultivating agency, by which I mean the ability to try to…
x Agency begets agency — LessWrong Replacing fear Practical Frontpage 60 Agency begets agency by Richard_Ngo 6th Jul 2023 5 min read 1 60 The second way of cultivating excitement-based motivation I'll discuss in this sequence is cultivating agency, by which I mean the ability to try to shape the world. The key idea I want to convey here is that the feeling of agency is in many cases a self-fulfilling prophecy, because the hardest part of many things is mustering the energy and initiative to get started. If you think of yourself as agentic, then you’ll continually be looking out for opportuniti
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